Long Island Community Devastated by Deaths of Four Teens in Car Accident

High School Students Were Coming Home From Night at the Movies

By

Phil Helsel and

Joe Jackson

May 11, 2014 9:56 p.m. ET

FARMINGDALE, N.Y.—One was a joker with dreams of making it in the movie business, another hoped to become a police officer, a third was an honors student and one had moved to Long Island not long ago for a fresh start after a tragedy.

The four victims of a fatal car crash over the weekend were students at Farmingdale High School, the center of life in this blue-collar Long Island village where residents were struggling Sunday to make...